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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:36:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Davide Tomi <davide@galactica.it>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrade from 2.0 to 2.1
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960214103440.982I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199602141150.DAA17246@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Davide Tomi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have to upgrade my FreeBSD system from 2.0
> to 2.1 (from CD-ROM).
> The problem is that it seems that is not possible
> to upgrade without reinstalling the all system.
> This is a problem for me because I have many
> applications installed.

You can do it, just mount the filesystems instead of re-making them.  

you might want to recompile anyway, tehre are some binary changes between 
2.0 and 2.0.5/2.1.  Don't forget to install the compat2x library!

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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